D.L. Moffitt is a prevention financing lead and human services strategist advancing systems change in child welfare. Grounded in lived experience with poverty and kinship care, he is committed to strengthening public systems’ capacity to invest in prevention pathways rooted in stability and dignity.
Mentored by national child welfare financing expert Don Winstead, D.L. leads the Fiscal Leadership Circle, working alongside system leaders to reimagine the fiscal and policy conditions that have made placement the default response for children and families. His work focuses on maximizing the Family First Prevention Services Act, flexible funding strategies, supportive housing, and cross-sector approaches that help jurisdictions move resources upstream. His experience spans human services agencies in California, Colorado, North Carolina, New York, and Washington as well as the U.S. Small Business Administration, with a focus on expanding access to more than $40 billion in public programs for vulnerable communities.
A former Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, D.L. is inspired to strengthen agencies from his time as a Princeton PPIA Fellow, Charles B. Rangel Scholar, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Finalist, and Gates Millennium Scholar. He holds degrees in Cultural History from George Mason University and in Education Policy from Columbia University.
Outside of work, D.L. is an avid traveler, co-mentor, dancer, curator, and photographer.
In 2026, Foster America marks a decade of building an alternative to a child welfare system rooted in crisis—and proving that families thrive when support comes early, with dignity, and led by community.
